Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachinid for ID, C Spain

Posted by Piluca_Alvarez on 28-04-2012 22:33
#1

Taken on a path by a lake in the outskirts of Madrid on the 10th March 2012. Any ideas? Thanks!! :)

Posted by Piluca_Alvarez on 28-04-2012 22:34
#2

Another view.

Posted by Piluca_Alvarez on 28-04-2012 22:35
#3

A detail of the head. There are loads of more pictures if more detail of the fly is required.

Posted by ChrisR on 28-04-2012 23:53
#4

Something like Phryxe vulgaris perhaps? Too difficult really to say without a specimen.

Posted by Piluca_Alvarez on 29-04-2012 10:09
#5

Thanks anyway, Chris :) You don't have any idea how much I appreciate even a hint ;) I don't expect miracles but when they are so cooperative it is worth to try :D

Sorry, no specimen :o :o :D but I am showing you a detail of an area that looks rather peculiar: the excavation can be seen, loads of discal bristles con T3 and T4 and an upright curved bristle (the other seems to be missing) on the most apical part of the scutellum.

Just in case it is of any help and fits with Phryxe vulgaris :)

If I can get the genus for sure I will be very, very happy :)

Posted by ChrisR on 29-04-2012 10:32
#6

Well, the raised, crossed apical scutellars on an orange-tipped scutellum, along with other features does point towards Phryxe and the blue-grey parafrontal would suggest vulgaris but this is all very vague and shouldn't be considered a good identification by any means ;)

Posted by Piluca_Alvarez on 29-04-2012 10:53
#7

Thanks, Chris!! ;) I so much appreciate the hints and the effort. What you tell me is much better than 'Exoristinae' which is the most I can could go further all by myself :S